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"I'm a blunt instrument, and I'm damn good at it." Mary Poppins Returns, Bumblebee, and Aquaman
For the past few years now, Disney and Lucasfilm have had a lock on the holiday blockbuster season with a little, revived franchise named Star Wars. Alas, the wheels fell of that wagon when the underrated, under-performing origin story Solo debuted in theatres this May with a thud, and there was no end-of-year galactic adventure to follow.
Into this December's "let's thumb our noses at Oscar bait" box office breach rushed Warner Brothers'/DC's Aquaman, Paramount's Transformers prequel Bumblebee, and Disney's own Mary Poppins Returns. By some strange twist of fate, the fish king roundly beat the giant robot and the buttoned-up British nanny in ticket sales in their collective first weekend of release.
I am certain that all of these popcorn epics will clean up, though, in the gray and dreary vacation days following Christmas, as they each bring a great deal of heart, just enough ingenuity, and a comforting if lightly derivative familiarity.
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"Still. Today or never. That's my motto." – Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) in Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins Returns is, yes, practically perfect. Predictable and formulaic? Mayhaps. But it doesn't matter. You'll laugh and cry, occasionally scratch your head … at times all three simultaneously. You'll love it nonetheless … in great part due to Emily Blunt's bonkers, measured, heartfelt commitment to the title role.
Not dissimilar to Disney's decades-later reboot Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Mary Poppins Returns feels like a subtle remix on the original film's greatest hits.
The screenplay by David Magee dutifully follows the same story beats as Julie Andrews' flick – for example:
a crabby dad (little Michael Banks, portrayed poignantly by Ben Whishaw, all grown-up and repeating the sins of his father, but in a mopey/angsty widower way);
a politically woke sister (Emily Mortimer's Jane Banks, the sunniest class warrior you'll ever see, taking the place of Glynis Johns' suffragette Mrs. Banks);
some lost soul children who need to rediscover the joys of imagination;
a no-good banker (Colin Firth, all sleazy charm as nothing says holiday kids movie like the threat of foreclosure!);
a winking-wise lamplighter instead of a chimney sweep (Lin-Manuel Miranda being slightly less insufferable and overeager than usual … and, yes, he raps, sort of … once);
and a finale that swaps out balloons for kites, and throws in Angela Lansbury for good measure … in case you'd forgotten about Mary Poppins' knock-off Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
The score by Marc Shaiman (Hairspray) is perfectly fine, but follows a similar path as the script, presenting new numbers that evoke the overly familiar tunes of yore and serving similar narrative purposes. "Spoonful of Sugar" becomes "Can You Imagine That?" to get the ornery kids to embrace bathtime. "A Cover is Not the Book" (the best number in the new film) is an animated fantasia a la "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." "Trip a Little Light Fantastic" is an ode to the unappreciated lamplighters (who even do some BMX- style bicycle tricks?!?), not unlike "Step in Time." And so on.
Rob Marshall's direction (Into the Woods, Nine, Chicago) is effective, if workmanlike, evoking the past film through iconography, color palette, choreography, and overall composition. Mary Poppins Returns doesn't wow as much as it sedates the viewer, and the film never quite escapes the physical confines of the sound-stages upon which it was obviously filmed.
In the end, though, this is Blunt's show, and she is an absolute pip. I could watch her read the phone book as Mary Poppins, with a knowing glance here, an arched eyebrow there, and a master plan to make all of us decent again. And that is why we all need a movie (and a damn nanny) like Mary Poppins Returns.
"The darkest nights produce the brightest stars." – Memo (Jorge Lendeborg, Jr.) in Bumblebee
If you'd told me the tone-deaf, garish, migraine-inducing, jingoistic Transformers film franchise would eventually yield one of the sweetest, warmest, funniest, family-friendliest "girl-and-her-[robot]-dog" coming-of-age yarns since, say, the Paddington movies, I'd have sold you my vintage Hasbro figures for $1. But here we are. Bumblebee, the sixth (!) installment in this series, jettisons director Michael Bay (praise be!), adds nuanced and charming leading lady Hailee Steinfeld, and delivers a lovely cinematic homage to simpler sci-fi allegories of the Spielbergian 80s.
Travis Knight, Oscar-nominated director of Kubo and the Two Strings, picks up the reins from Bay, working from an almost pastoral (!) script by Christina Hodson that wisely puts human/robot emotion and familial interaction before special effects and mind-numbing battle sequences (although there are still about two or three too many of those).
Borrowing liberally from producer Steven Spielberg's own E.T. (and at this point, that's just fine), the plot relates Autobot warrior Bumblebee's arrival on earth, circa 1987. Within moments, the big, yellow, bug-eyed 'bot finds himself used and abused by the American military (sparkling John Cena, wryly channeling every "shoot first, ask later" cinematic armed forces cliche). Bumblebee is eventually, inadvertently rescued from a junkyard by a plucky, sweet teenage girl Charlie Watson (Steinfeld) looking to rediscover the love of her deceased father at the bottom of a bin of used auto parts. Unsung Pamela Adlon is harried brilliance as Charlie's befuddled and exasperated mother Sally.
Steinfeld is still coasting a bit on her stellar Edge of Seventeen performance as a misunderstood adolescent with a dazzling heart of gold buried under a sullen, surly, glowering pout. I guess this is her niche, for now, and it works to great effect in Bumblebee as well.
Two broken souls – in this case pubescent and robotic – heal one another by giving voice to the underdog and by waving a Breakfast Club fist in the face of institutional repression. I dug it. And the exquisitely curated soundtrack of late FM 80s hits adds an unexpected and refreshing layer of musical-comedy-esque commentary to a movie about giant robots taking over our planet.
"I'm a blunt instrument and I'm damn good at it." Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) in Aquaman
I enjoyed Aquaman a lot, but could have used about 30 minutes less of blurry aquatic battles and about ten minutes more of authentic wit. Nonetheless, this is a visually stunning film that never takes itself too seriously and with the wisdom to assemble a world-class cast. Throw The Once and Future King, Black Panther, Tron, Flash Gordon, Jewel of the Nile, Krull, Thor, Big Trouble in Little China, Hamlet, and Lord of the Rings into a Mad Libs blender and you yield this wonderfully loony pic.
Momoa is nothing but utterly charming in interviews. A great actor? Meh. But a star? Absolutely. That said, he looks great, but I couldn't help feeling like some of his best lines likely landed on the cutting room floor to make way for more CGI soldiers riding giant seahorses. That's a shame. The best parts of this film are the human parts. Nicole Kidman deserves a medal for making the Splash-meets-Terminator opening sequence of her Atlantean queen meeting cute with a Maine lighthouse keeper (Temuera Morrison), playing house, and popping out a half-breed sea-prince baby not only palatable, but poignant and downright thrilling.
Taken at a superficial level, the plot is almost identical to Black Panther's. Two beefy men square off to rule a hidden, technologically advanced kingdom with the "bad guy" claiming his rule will right the wrongs of the outside world (in Black Panther, it was racial divide, and, in Aquaman it is pollution and global warming). Black Panther has more nuance in its conflict and thereby the stakes are higher.
Aquaman telegraphs its punches, so it is quite obvious from the minute Aquaman's/Arthur Curry's half-brother Orm (a dolphin-sleek Patrick Wilson) enters the screen that he is basically a nogoodnik, regardless his sweet speeches about keeping the seven seas free of man-made detritus. He'd like to buy the world a Coke, as long as you keep the plastic six-rings, than you very much. But, with Aquaman, the fun is in the journey, not necessarily the destination. And Wilson is terrific, by the way.
Director James Wan (Furious 7, Insidious) takes his sweet time getting us to Arthur's inevitable victory over and acceptance by both land and sea. The visuals are sumptuous, even if the running time is gluttonous. There are moments of true wonder – any time Momoa communes with the creatures of the deep, for instance – and, on the balance, the film is a joy for those who have hoped DC could really start having fun with their characters.
The pitch perfect Wonder Woman seems less like an anomaly now and more like the beginning of a new, humane, inclusive direction for DC's movies. I'll consider my 2.5 hours watching Aquaman an investment in that future.
So, in 2018, we traded one time-worn, bloated Star Wars entry for three heartfelt, loving, and, at times, inspiring homages to other past fantasy hits. I think that's a decent, if safely unimaginative, return.
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In addition to online ordering at Amazon or from the publisher Open Books, the first book is currently is being carried by Bookbound, Common Language Bookstore, and Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tea Room in Ann Arbor, Michigan and by Green Brain Comics in Dearborn, Michigan.
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"Surrounded by the most vicious creatures on the planet: humans." Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is to the "Harry Potter" cinematic universe what Captain America: The First Avenger is to the "Marvel" one. Bear with me here. In the obvious, both films are set in a golden-hued America of yesteryear where art deco glitter and workaday charm belie a dark societal underbelly of xenophobic, segregated bullying. In a more esoteric way, both films are surprising throwbacks to a slower paced, quieter, more subdued (escapist fantasy and overindulgent special effects notwithstanding) kind of film-making, where whimsy and poignancy meet and where heartbroken underdogs have their day.
I like cinema like that – Frank Capra, The Wizard of Oz, Howard Hawks, Saturday matinee cliffhangers, and so on, and even latter day homages like The Rocketeer or Dick Tracy. Modern audiences aren't always sprung on this kind of retro storytelling – though Fantastic Beasts' box office returns seem to buck that trend.
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series (and the movie adaptations) focused, in a Brit boarding school milieu, on young wizarding students overcoming adversity, championing inclusion, and saving the day. Goodbye, Mr. Chips meets The Once and Future King. A Separate Peace meets Bewitched. Directed by longtime series helmer David Yates, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – a Harry Potter prequel of sorts that explores the American side of this magical world, nearly a century earlier (1926 to be exact) – is a different animal altogether (pun intended).
Newt Scamander (portrayed by Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne with the same shaggy-dog, twitchy, social misfit schtick he employed in The Theory of Everything) is a Hogwarts dropout who has dedicated himself to rescuing, rehabilitating, and protecting the mythical, magical animals of this world, woebegone creatures that neither muggle nor wizard seem to treat with honor or respect. He ventures across the pond for mysterious reasons, and some of his furry and feathered friends escape his watchful eye to frolic in a Jazz Age Manhattan. Spirited hijinks ensue, with surprisingly genuine peril and minimal lowest-common-denominator slapstick. In fact, Redmayne frets that these runaway critters are now "surrounded by the most vicious creatures on the planet: humans." If Al Gore and PETA collaborated on a Harry Potter backstory, I suspect it wouldn't be too different from the screenplay J.K. Rowling crafted here. Again: ok by me.
Redmayne is joined by a fabulous rogues' gallery of character actors:
Katherine Waterston, suggesting Maura Tierney's introspective authority as a low-level American wizard cop;
Dan Fogler, the Putnam County Spelling Bee-Tony winner bringing limited comic relief as a sadsack "Non-Maj" and wannabe baker along for the ride;
Alison Sudol, breathily transfixing – a Marilyn Monroe with Jessica Chastain's flint – as Waterston's mind-reading sis;
Ezra Miller, delivering the film's most refreshingly unsettling moments as a glowering, abused Jimmy Fallon doppelganger (with an Oliver Cromwell haircuit) concealing a deep, dark secret;
Samantha Morton, always so ethereally captivating, this time as an ominous, muckraking evangelical;
Jon Voight, another great presence, when not getting tripped up by his own politics, ironically cast as a William Randolph Hearst-ish proto-Trump;
Carmen Ejogo, stately and evocative as the president of American wizarding society, tangled in her own bureaucratic machinations;
Ron Perlman, nearly unrecognizable as an Edward G. Robinson-ish mobster troll (literally, a troll), who runs muscle and intel from the murky corners of a Grimms' fairy tale speakeasy;
And Colin Farrell, arguably the best of the bunch, having an understated field day, full of stylish gravitas, as Newt's chief nemesis, maneuvering chess pieces to ignite a race war between wizards and humans.
Unlike other entries in the Harry Potter canon, Fantastic Beasts unfolds less like a picaresque and more like a candy-colored potboiler. (Technicolor noir?) Why is Newt in America? What is the political endgame for the various players introduced? Why is there such loathing and fear for these beautiful, mischievous creatures Newt hides and hauls around in a battered brown suitcase, a valise that magically hides a portal to Rowling's version of the world's grooviest "no-kill" shelter? By the film's predictably cacophonous denouement (my only criticism), many answers are provided, but enough dangling threads are left to tee up (no doubt) another (very profitable) series of films. I think I'll be packing my suitcase to tag along.
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I've been editing a lot of other translators' corporate and legal work recently and one area that gets the best of otherwise skilled translators is terminology around corporate equities.
To start with, the names of different kinds of shares cause trouble. "Bearer shares" refer to a share that is owned by whoever holds the stock certificate, and this term generally gets translated properly. They contrast with "registered shares", where the owners are registered with the issuing company. The problem, however, lies in how this latter concept is referred to in some languages.
French exemplifies the issue. A literal translation from English would give actions registrées but this is not the correct term in French. In its place we find actions nominatives, literally "nominative shares", the idea being that the owner's name is registered (because "nominative" comes from Latin nominativus "related to naming").
The same issue is common across the Romance languages, so we find Spanish acciones nominativas and Portuguese ações nominativas. Arabic patterns with the Romance languages as it often does (as previously discussed on this blog) and uses الأسهم الاسمية (lit. "nominative shares", i.e. registered shares).
The English translator, then, when faced with Romance or Arabic constructions like actions nominatives or الأسهم الاسمية, needs to be strong and avoid the false friend and instead bring the concept back in idiomatic English. If you search the Internet for "nominative shares", you may even get led astray by results and even well-produced graphics trying to give this term a go in English. Where the pages are from shows that this is translationese, however; all of the results on the first page are from non-English-speaking countries: Panama, Lebanon, Belarus, and online translation sites. On the other hand, you will find a full 15 times more pages using the idiomatic English "registered shares".
So we know that some corporate stock can be registered under the owner's name somewhere, but what is the name of that document? The most common term in English is "share register", but you also find "shareholder register", "share ledger", and more. *** The one term to avoid in this context is "share registry" which denotes something completely different. The share registry is the company that removes the name of the old owner of a share and adds the new owner's name to the share register/ledger.
As with any field of translation, the breadth and depth of knowledge needed to produce successful legal and business translations are only acquired through years of practice and study, and this post covered just a few of the terms that a translator should be expected to navigate.


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Separate dining area: 4 high-backed upholstered dining chairs, dining table with timber pedestal, feature pendant light.
Fitted kitchen with plenty of fitted units, gas cooker with extractor, integrated fridge-freezer and practical laminate effect vinyl flooring.
Hallway door leading to family shower room and Bedrooms.
Family Shower Room: shower enclosure, extractor fan, wash basin and WC.
Main bedroom features double bed with feature upholstered headboard, bedside units, sockets and USB points. Separate vanity area with coordinating vanity stool, chest of drawers and fitted wardrobes.
Twin bedroom: 2 single beds, bedside cabinet, fitted wardrobe, socket and USB point.
A new model holiday home and good value.


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Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Inc (Ipsen), a subsidiary of Ipsen SA, is a biotechnology company that develops and commercializes pharmaceuticals in the areas of neurology and endocrinology. The company's product portfolio includes Increlex (mecasermin) injection indicated for the treatment of children suffering from short stature due to severe primary IGFD; Onivyde injection indicated for the treatment of patients with metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas; Somatuline Depot (lanreotide) injection used to treat acromegaly and neuroendocrine tumors; and Dysport (abobotulinumtoxinA) injection indicated for the treatment of adults with cervical dystonia, upper limb spasticity, and pediatric patients with lower limb spasticity. The company partners with biopharmaceutical companies and scientific and clinical communities to develop new therapies against endocrine and metabolic diseases. Ipsen is headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, the US.


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The China-Arab States Center, the first overseas center of China's original BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, was formally inaugurated this week in Tunisia. The BDS/GSS Center was established as a project between China and the Tunisia-based Arab Information and Communication Technology Organization or the so-called, AICTO, a well-known Arab Government organization, which is under the Arabian League, who aims to promote the worldwide application of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. This statement is according to the director of China Satellite Navigation office, Ran Chengqi.
As what highlighted by the director, the said center can also serve both the platform and the window to showcase the BDS for promoting international cooperation and exchanges. AICTO's secretary, Mohamed Ben Amor, welcomed the center and considered this as an exceptional technology project not only for the Arabian region but the entire world. According to Amor, the AICTO will intensify its support and assistance with China about satellite navigation to boost economic development and technological advancement in the region.
For Khalil Amiri, the secretary of the Tunisian scientific research, the project BeiDou will help them develop the digital economy of the Arab countries and train scientists of the satellite navigation. Amiri also mentioned about their planned intensifying of cooperation and support to China with regards to Satellite Research industry. Working closely with China to develop effective access and create a win-win database system with the aid of the BeiDou project is their ultimate goal. Not only the BeiDou project that will bind China and other Arab countries but as well as the other satellites which can be used for various purposes.
China preferred to support the BeiDou project instead of supporting the US GPS. BeiDou, named after the Big Dipper Constellation in the Chinese term also aims to compete with the US on its GPS system, the European Union's Galileo and Russia's GLONASS.
China plans to send their 18 BeiDou satellites in space this 2018 and the satellite system is expected to deliver positioning services and navigation to all the countries along the Road and Belt in the last quarter of 2018. It was also expected by 2020 to have more than 30 satellites in space and it will go global. By the year 2020, the value of this project is expected to surpass 58 billion US dollars which will go the BeiDou system.


At its most basic, an IMS is designed to record and manage information about the physical goods in your business. While all IMS products have this core feature, most of them have many additional features and functions.
For example, some will raise purchase orders and reorder stock from your suppliers automatically. Others will hold detailed product information like photos, descriptions and specifications. Some will let you automatically create listings on marketplaces like eBay and Amazon, while other IMS products might include order management, accounting and analytics.
There are a huge range of IMS products available, from those that manage only the core functions, to others that provide a complete back end software solution for your ecommerce business.
You'll save time: You won't have to manually update stock levels whenever you buy or sell products.
You'll get insights: Sales, price histories, analysis, and reports will help you track what's working, and what isn't.
You'll sell more: IMS products are designed to keep your stock levels healthy, so you'll always have enough inventory to meet demand.
You'll automate: Some IMS products will automatically upload product details, reorder stock, send notifications, and carry out various other functions in your business, all to save you time.
An IMS is especially useful to online entrepreneurs who sell products over multiple channels. A good IMS can track, upload, and manage product lines, no matter where you're selling. Whether you're listing on Amazon, selling on Shopify, or using a WordPress ecommerce plugin, a multichannel IMS lets you review and manage everything from one place.
When it comes to ecommerce businesses, an IMS system can easily expand to become your all-purpose business management software. It can help you to administer, report on, and track large parts of your online retail presence. It can be a useful addition to, or replacement for, your back office software that helps you run all your day-to-day retail operations.
There are plenty of terms related to IMS products, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), multichannel management, marketplace management, and more. Although none of these is a perfect description, they all touch on what an IMS can do. Of course, that doesn't mean you should need your IMS to do everything. Sometimes you'll want to use a specialized product for niche tasks, in which case you'll want your IMS integrate easily with other systems.
We list ecommerce inventory management software under Multichannel Management → Inventory & Channel Management in the Web Retailer directory.
Let's dig into some of the key features you might want in an IMS.
Tracking what you have in stock and adjusting inventory levels as you purchase new or existing SKUs and sell your listed products.
Putting minimum stock levels in place and tracking when you're going to go below a certain threshold, so you can reorder your products.
Bundling items together to encourage customers to buy due to included accessories or multipack discounts.
Tracking supplier details and purchase prices so you can see the history and work out profit margins.
Tracking where products are located so you can pick, pack, and ship items efficiently. This is typically achieved through labeling product bins and shelves within a warehouse.
Barcode integration to make it easy to scan products and log their movements.
Processing incoming shipments from suppliers, by scanning barcodes or entering product SKUs and quantities. This lets you reconcile the goods you've received against purchase orders to make sure there's no shortfall.
Mapping a warehouse and optimizing storage and picking routes for the most efficient stowing and picking of inventory.
Pick and pack management so that workers can use their time effectively for retrieving items from the warehouse and shipping them out.
You probably won't need warehouse management features if you sell everything through FBA or contract it out to a third-party logistics company.
Warehouse management is built into some inventory management systems, and there are standalone warehouse management systems (WMS) available also. We list those under Shipping & Fulfillment → Warehouse Management in the Web Retailer directory.
Providing a single database for orders from multiple channels including your ecommerce website, third-party marketplaces like Amazon, over the phone, in a pop up store or via other means.
Generating pick lists and packing slips to aid with the picking and packing of products in the order.
Gathering customer details like name, address, items ordered, and delivery requirements.
Consolidating and unifying specific types of orders together, to streamline picking, packing, and distribution.
Printing invoices, shipping labels, and international customs forms to make shipping the order as fast and easy as possible.
Finding the best carrier and service for fast and cost effective transportation of goods to the end customer. They may also integrate with specialized shipping tools that provide this feature.
Order management is a common feature in inventory management systems, but as above there are also standalone order management systems (OMS). We list those under Shipping & Fulfillment → Order Management in the Web Retailer directory.
Identifying items that are likely to go out of stock and alerting you to raise a purchase order with a supplier.
Automatically raising and sending purchase orders to suppliers based on criteria that you specify.
Receiving verifications from suppliers that purchase orders have been received and processed.
Tracking the shipping and distribution of goods to you or a warehouse.
Reconciling a purchase order against actual goods received.
Inventory management software varies widely in the sophistication of their purchasing features. In some tools, there is a simple minimum stock level and an alert is sent when it is reached. In other systems, there are sophisticated algorithms for predicting future stock levels, and fully automated reordering.
We have Restocking tools in the Web Retailer directory that specialize in the forecasting of stock levels and calculating recommended reorder quantities. These can supplement or replace the purchasing features of your IMS.
Capturing details about the product like name, category, selling price, images, or descriptions.
Providing marketplace-specific details like bullet points on Amazon or item specifics on eBay.
Adapting product information to specific ecommerce channels and marketplaces, then listing the items through those channels.
Amending and updating existing listings with new information or changes.
Delisting items that you do not wish to sell through a particular channel.
Listing is a core feature for many ecommerce inventory management tools, but others focus only on post-sale operations and don't include listing at all.
Some tools do provide listing as well as post-sale features, but not necessarily both for every shopping cart and marketplace they support. They might be able to create eBay listings, for example, but not be able to add new items to the Amazon product catalog.
Setting targets and thresholds for "key performance indicators" and tracking how you're meeting those targets over time.
Looking at historic trends to help you plan for the future, for example, product sales and how they're impacted by seasonality.
Reporting on revenue and sales to help with areas like forecasting, accounting, and financial management.
Understanding the costs associated with your business, including product costs, and helping you to set good profit margins.
Identifying your top sellers, low sellers, and other products so you can manage stock levels or run promotions effectively.
Reporting has long been a weak area for ecommerce inventory management software, but some tools have improved considerably in recent years.
The Web Retailer directory does not currently list any standalone multichannel reporting tools, but there are marketplace-specific analytics tools for Amazon and eBay.
Marketing and promotions through managing email offers, advertising, social media marketing, and other channels.
Repricing of items based on competitors, promotions, sales velocity, and other rules.
Product information management such as a full archive of product photoshoots and providing a workflow for creating and approving product data.
Returns management for tracking and refunding items that have been sent back.
Customer relationship and customer service management so you can provide the right level of service to the people buying from you.
Integration with other specialist software tools that may provide more functionality in their specific niche.
Now that we've covered the main features of inventory management systems, let's explore what your requirements might be and provide advice on choosing the right IMS.
Every ecommerce retailer and entrepreneur is different. It's important that the IMS you choose meets your exact business needs, and honestly, that's a big job to undertake. Everyone has their own unique requirements, but it's not always easy to figure out what you actually need. So we think the first step in finding the right IMS is to ask yourself the right questions.
We've provided some suggested questions below. As you go through them, document your answers honestly and objectively. Don't just think about where your ecommerce business is now, but where you realistically expect it to be in one year, three years, and maybe even five years.
Once you've answered all of these questions, you can research some IMS systems and see how well they align with your needs. That will help you create a shortlist for further review and testing.
The first thing you'll need to establish is where you are currently with your ecommerce selling, and where you want to get to.
What types of products do you sell and what are the main niches they fall into?
Are you a private label seller, a brand or a reseller of existing products? Or are you selling clearance, collectible, crafted, vintage or used products?
How often does your product lineup change? Is it important to be able to upload brand new products regularly, or do you have reliable products that you sell month in and month out?
The answers to this section will help you choose an IMS designed for your specific business model and the type of seller that you are.
Do you just sell through your own store, through third-party marketplaces, or through some combination of channels?
Do you need to be able to track listings and make amendments across many different areas and channels?
The answers to this section will help you choose an IMS that has the right multichannel listing and order management capabilities.
Which parcel carriers or fulfillment services do you use?
What software do you use for common business needs like accounting?
What other ecommerce software do you use?
The answers to this section will help you choose an IMS that works with your existing software and service providers.
Where do you see your business over the next one, three, and five years, and how will that impact on an IMS?
How successful and large is your business, based on quantity of goods sold, revenue, and profit margins?
Will you need to train employees to use the IMS effectively?
How much can you afford to spend on an IMS, both initially and on an ongoing basis?
This will help you choose inventory management software that will match your business size and be affordable for you.
We covered features in detail in the previous section, but it's worth breaking this down a little more so you can understand your exact requirements.
Do you need the IMS to track and manage stock levels across multiple channels?
Do you need it to handle kits, bundles, or other ways of combining products?
Do you want the IMS to alert you when stock levels are low?
Do you need a warehouse management system?
Do you want barcode and other scanning integrations for receiving and managing products?
Do you want routing optimization for more streamlined picking of goods?
What are your requirements for picking and packing slips, shipping labels, customs forms, and other documents?
Does the system work with the parcel carriers that you use?
Do you want the IMS to reorder items from suppliers automatically?
Do you want to track supplier prices over time?
Do you want to be able to track products when they're on their way to you?
Do you want your IMS to handle product data including descriptions, images and other attributes?
Do you need marketplace-specific functionality and adaptability for platforms like Amazon or eBay?
Will your IMS work with your shopping cart or ecommerce platform?
Can you easily update, amend, and delist items as required?
What are the key measurements and KPIs that you want to track to understand the success of your business?
Do you want dashboards and reports to help you understand performance?
Can reports be customized and automated to your specific needs?
What other reporting requirements do you have?
What other software do you use in your ecommerce business that won't be replaced by an IMS?
Which software must the IMS be able to integrate with?
What software do your suppliers use, and does your IMS need to integrate with them?
Do you want to manage your marketing and promotional activities through your IMS?
Do you require repricing functionality to track and stay ahead of competitors?
Do you want to manage returns and customer service through the IMS?
Do you have any other specific requirements for an IMS product?
Your list of answers becomes your requirements for choosing the right IMS. Once you've captured all of your answers, rank each one in terms of how important it is.
It's time to start researching different IMS products. Read through their features lists, FAQs, and support pages to work out exactly what each one does, and doesn't do. When you find some that meet most or all of your requirements, you can start shortlisting them and digging into more detail. Many IMS products offer free trials, so you can try them out to see if they're right for you.
An IMS system built with a particular type of business in mind may not fit your specific business problems.
Some software works on a percentage-of-sales model, which can be prohibitively expensive for some businesses.
There are a lot of software providers out there. The choice can be overwhelming, so sellers get tired of the research and go with something that isn't a great fit.
Managing products over multiple marketplaces is a tough problem, and some systems can be buggy or unreliable in important areas.
We don't believe that the perfect IMS system actually exists, but with the right questions, answers, and product fit, you should be able to get close for your specific situation. Here are some of the potential pitfalls to watch out.
Inventory management software often aims to be the all-in-one back-office system for ecommerce. But it's rare that a tool has had an equal amount of planning and development effort poured into every one of its features.
Often, a system that claims to do everything might be excellent in one or two areas but underdeveloped in others. For example, it might be rock-solid at listing but weak at order management. Or it might have fantastic reporting tools, but unreliable marketplace integrations. Don't assume that the slick and impressive module that you saw first is representative of the entire system.
It's easy to be so overwhelmed by all the choices and features of an IMS. That's why you need to take your time and do your research. A little more effort now will pay you back massively when it comes to the day-to-day operations of your business.
Don't skimp on the research and make sure you look at all the facts objectively. Remember that you're not just looking for the most features or the lowest fees, you want to invest in an IMS that will save you time and money, and help you grow your business.
Ecommerce has a very rich software ecosystem. When you're choosing an IMS, make a note of the software you're currently using to run your business, and the software you're likely to use in the future.
Some of that software might be replaced by your new IMS. If it's not, make sure that the IMS and your specialist software can integrate with each other. Some IMS systems may provide this as a "native" integration, and others may offer it through a third-party service like Zapier.
When it comes to setting up and operating inventory management software, some retail entrepreneurs will be happy to learn, configure, and update everything themselves. Others may want the vendor to help them out, by guiding them through installation, data upload and configuration.
Support can be expensive. Find out what type of help you can get, what's included at no extra cost, and what you'll need to pay for. Assume that you will need some level of support, because even if you have years of ecommerce experience you might not find it easy to translate that to the software in front of you.
If it's in any way possible, try out an IMS before signing a contract. Once you've decided an IMS is the right product for you, read through the supporting information, contract, and pricing agreement with care.
Make sure you know exactly what you're paying for in terms of setup and subscription fees, support costs, and so on. Be very careful about getting locked into a long contract. If you're not sure, talk to the vendor and get everything in writing.
Don't get carried away with needing more and more features. You could end up paying for lots of things that you'll never need.
Understand exactly what's covered in the fees you pay and get everything in writing.
Don't expect any IMS to be completely perfect, just get close.
Time spent on researching an IMS is never wasted.
Never ignore the support offered by an IMS vendor, with software this complicated, you're likely to need it.
Value your time and that of your employees. An IMS should save you time, and enable you to do more than you could before.
If an IMS has a trial period, then use it. If it doesn't, ask the vendor for one anyway.
That's it, it's time to get out there, do the research, and choose the IMS that will revolutionize your online retail business. Good luck!


You may just think of swimming as a way to cool off and catch some relief from the summer heat, but did you know that swimming might also give you relief from joint pain or an injury?
1. Swimming is a low-impact exercise. Staying active after an injury is important if you want to avoid stiffness in the area. However, many exercises—even walking—can put additional strain on your sore or injured body. Swimming is one of the few exercises that is truly low-impact and can help you keep moving without increasing the strain on the joint or muscle you are trying to rehab.
2. Swimming is not a weight-bearing exercise. If you are injured, your doctor may advise you not to put any weight on your injured joint or muscle. Because swimming makes you essentially weightless, it is a great way to move without bearing any weight, thus relieving pressure on the injury. Depending on the type of injury, you may want to try various strokes until you find the one that creates the least amount of pressure. If you are suffering from a back injury, try swimming backstroke, allowing the water to support your back as you swim.
3. Swimming is active stretching. Again, mobility is very important during the rehabilitation process. Active stretching helps keeps the muscles loose and flexible, and swimming is a great way to stretch.
4. Swimming is a cardio workout. One the most frustrating results of an injury is the inability to stay active and exercise. Swimming is a cardio workout that provides the opportunity for someone who is still healing from an injury to stay in shape.
5. Swimming may promote nerve regeneration. One study on animals found that swimming accelerates nerve regeneration, speeding the healing process from (in this case) sciatic nerve injury.
If you have suffered an injury, it's important to talk to your doctor before beginning any form of exercise or rehabilitation program on your own. In some cases, it may not be advised for you to swim immediately following an injury, but when you do get permission to begin exercising again, swimming is often the best place to start.


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Todd Porter: Browns need to learn how to win on the road
Todd Porter
Tattooed on the left forearm of Kellen Winslow Jr. is a famous comment from Fredrick Douglas.
"Without struggle, there is no progress."
It is the same right arm that reached into the balmy desert winter and snatched a Derek Anderson prayer on the final play of Sunday's game.
The roof at University of Phoenix Stadium was open and the sun shone in. Just not on the Browns. And that's the way it should have been.
All nine of the Browns lives seem to have finally died. It's time to win football games with ability, rather than good fortune and the bounce of Romeo Crennel's oft-referred oblong ball. Cleveland's playoff hope took a bit of a hit Sunday when the Cardinals, not too proud to turn away charity, scored 21 of their points off turnovers and beat the Browns 27-21.
But, there seemed to be a last ray of Arizona hope. Three receivers lined up right, and Winslow was split left by himself. Anderson's pass, into traffic, was perfectly placed and Winslow's large hands grabbed the ball and came down with it.
One foot landed in. Winslow was blasted out of bounds while in the air. It was a judgment call. An official could have ruled he was forced out and would've come down with the catch. Instead, he ruled incomplete pass.
Players congratulated, but ... wait a minute. The officials looked at the last play one more time. No one reverses the final play that changes the end of a game right? Never happens?
"If we would've gotten that call, I'd have thought we wouldn't have been able to be beat," wide receiver Braylon Edwards said. "If we'd got that call, I'd have said, 'Browns to the Super Bowl.' We've been getting call after call after call. We've been getting a lot of calls.
"If we had won today, it would've been a situation where Arizona could've been really disappointed. We didn't deserve to win."
Worse than the Browns not playing well, they didn't play smart. Anderson was picked off and it was returned for a touchdown. He lost a fumble that led to another touchdown. Leigh Bodden had a Dwayne Rudd moment when he kicked a ball after dropping an interception. Damn ball.
Bodden's brain indigestion led to a delay of game penalty. That converted a third-and-four and likely punt, into a first down and ultimately a Cardinals touchdown.
Josh Cribbs, a big part of why Cleveland is a wild card contender, helped lose this one. He muffed a punt when he lost track of blocker Daven Holley.
Simon Frazer went Snuka and head-butted a Cardinal during a kickoff. That penalty erased decent field position at the 33. It even resulted in Crennel delivering his best quote of the season.
"They always see the second head butt," he said.
Anderson was the reason the Browns had a chance to come back, and the reason they needed to.
"I don't like losing the game for us," Anderson said.
The Browns start road games like the gravedigger starts his mornings. They did again Sunday.
"I think we address things and focus so hard on things, a lot of times we forget the other things," Edwards said. "We need to focus on starting fast. We put so much emphasis on finishing ... a lot of times you forget to start. ... We need to have a balance. We need to start and finish."
And you'd think that goes without saying, almost like using soap and water to bathe, or peanut butter and jelly on the sandwich.
Unlike past expansion Browns teams, this one cares. Kicker Phil Dawson has been on plane rides after a loss and teammates didn't know enough that they should care. This one does.
"This team," Dawson said, "they expect more. That's the difference. Guys really want to learn."
The Browns have a good thing going. They are confident and know they can win. They have yet, however, to learn how to win games on the road.
"There's a big difference between knowing you can win, and knowing how to," Dawson said. "There is a fine line, but these guys get it."
Veteran Eric Steinbach has been on the bad Bengal teams, and the good. He's playing on a good Browns team, lucky for him. Steinbach is left scratching his head at this team.
Sure, it's impressive this offense will stop a heart at the end of a game.
But why try?
"It's good in a negative way," Steinbach said. "We have the talent, but why put ourselves in that position. ... We're winning consistently, but that's not enough. We can't be complacent. We've got to start fast. In this league, you can't play catch up."
So, in the final six seconds, Anderson heaved a ball that found Winslow's hands. The law of averages caught up to the Browns and nudged Winslow out of bounds. This one they didn't deserve.
"They played better than us. That's what sucks," Steinbach said. "We put it in the hands of someone else."
The football gods made sure it wasn't in Winslow's when it mattered.
Reach Repository sports writer Todd Porter at (330) 580-8340 or e-mail todd.porter@cantonrep.com

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THE PUNCH Newspaper-Ihuoma Chiedozie
The Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday directed that a N19bn intervention fund hitherto set aside for the dredging of the lower River Niger should be used to fund shoreline protection and land reclamation projects in affected communities in the Niger Delta region.
The Acting President gave the directive at a meeting with governors of the Niger Delta states at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
He directed the Federal Ministry of Finance to hand over the N19bn to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs for the execution of the projects.
The meeting, which was described as that of the Steering Council on Niger Delta Amnesty, considered various proposals on ways to accelerate infrastructural development in the Niger Delta region.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Ima Niboro, who addressed journalists after the meeting behind closed doors, explained that Jonathan gave the directive after the governors reached a consensus that the shoreline protection project was a priority for communities in the region.
He said, "At the Steering Council on Niger Delta Amnesty meeting, the main issue was actually to take a decision on certain areas of need for the Niger Delta area.
"There was a proposal to dredge the lower Niger and because of some issues about the area, the Acting President decided to get the governors to take a look at these proposals and see the areas of critical need of their own states so that we take a bottom-up approach in the area of infrastructural development of the Niger Delta.
"Basically, the issue was between the dredging of the lower River Niger to areas that impact on the communities vis-a-vis shoreline protection and land reclamation and all the governors reached a consensus that the most urgent requirement was land reclamation and shoreline protection."
He noted that the governors' decision was informed by the fact that several communities in the Niger Delta region had lost large parts of their shorelines to the ocean.
He said, "There have been several instances of communities that have lost much of their shorelines to the ocean; in fact, Bayelsa State has lost almost one kilometre, if not more of its shoreline, to the ocean.
"So, today, the Acting President directed that the N19bn intervention fund should be passed to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs from the Ministry of Finance for this shoreline protection initiative."
He added that besides land reclamation and shoreline protection, water projects would also form part of the intervention.
According to Niboro, "During the period, there will certainly be some challenges about water sources because those activities will cause some measure of mudding-up of water channels.
"So, there will be some water projects as part of this process to ensure that there is water."
He further explained that the project for dredging of the lower River Niger would commence once the land reclamation and shoreline protection project was concluded.
"Subsequently, when these areas have been well protected and land adequately reclaimed, we can go into the area of dredging of the lower Niger," he said.
Jonathan, in the same vein, was said to have directed that there should be no political consideration in the selection of communities that would benefit from the project.
Niboro said, "So, that was the decision at the meeting today and the Acting President also directed that consideration for the communities to be protected should not have any political undertone.
"It should be those communities that are seriously impacted because many communities have lost most of their land to water, anybody from the area can attest to that."
He also offered further clarification on where the N19bn would be sourced from.
He said, "There was a special intervention fund that was supposed to be for the dredging of that part (of River Niger).
" So, instead of using it to dredge now, which will cause greater challenges; you know when you dredge, the water channels become deeper, flow becomes faster and it will actually impact more on the shorelines of the communities.
"It is that fund that is to be redeployed to protect the shorelines according to the request of the communities.
"We had a meeting last week and the governors were mandated to seek the opinion of the communities on what exactly was their requirements and this is their consensus."
He said that the project would commence "as soon as possible."
"It is an urgent project which does not need any time wasting; there are procurement issues involved.
"Once those issues are sorted out, the projects will not waste any time," he added.
Niboro said the shoreline protection and land reclamation projects were "also part of the amnesty programme."
"As you know, infrastructure is also part of the amnesty programme. When you talk about infrastructure you are also talking about that aspect of amnesty," he said.
Governors at the meeting included Chief Godswill Akpabio of Akwa-Ibom, Adams Oshiomhole of Edo, Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta, Timipreye Sylva of Bayelsa and Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers.
Federal Government officials at the meeting included the Ministers of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Ufot Ekaette and Mr. Godsday Orubebe, and the Minister of Finance, Dr. Mansur Muhtar, as well as the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Timi Alaibe.


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The Potential of Public Policy on Open Access Repositories
Journal Erasmus Law Review, Issue 2 2019
Keywords public policy, dissemination, governance, open access, repositories
Authors Nikos Koutras
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To address the potential of public policy on the governance of OARs it is necessary to define what is meant by public policy and the importance of public policy in designing an efficient governance framework. Critical components are the subject matter of public policy and its objectives. Hence, it is useful to consider declarations, policies and statements in relation to open access practice and examine the efficiency of these arrangements towards the improvement of stakeholders' engagement in governance of OARs. Secondly, policies relating to dissemination of scientific information via OARs should be examined. In this regard, it is relevant to consider the public policy basis for Intellectual Property (IP) laws that concerning the utility of OARs. Therefore, economic theories relevant with the role of IP laws should be examined. Such examination depicts to what extend these laws facilitate the utility of OARs. In order to specify justifications for the desirability of OARs the objectives of social theories should be also considered. Thus, there is consternation that without legal protection against copying the incentive to create intellectual property will be undermined. As scholarly communication infrastructure evolves, it is necessary to recognize the efforts of the relationship between Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and communication technologies in the context of public policy and after engagement with it. After employing such multilevel approach, the paper argues about a socio-economic framework to enhance the governance of OARs through public policy.
Nikos Koutras
Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp.
Access and Reuse of Machine-Generated Data for Scientific Research
Keywords machine-generated data, Internet of Things, scientific research, personal data, GDPR
Authors Alexandra Giannopoulou
Data driven innovation holds the potential in transforming current business and knowledge discovery models. For this reason, data sharing has become one of the central points of interest for the European Commission towards the creation of a Digital Single Market. The value of automatically generated data, which are collected by Internet-connected objects (IoT), is increasing: from smart houses to wearables, machine-generated data hold significant potential for growth, learning, and problem solving. Facilitating researchers in order to provide access to these types of data implies not only the articulation of existing legal obstacles and of proposed legal solutions but also the understanding of the incentives that motivate the sharing of the data in question. What are the legal tools that researchers can use to gain access and reuse rights in the context of their research?
Alexandra Giannopoulou
Institute for Information Law (IViR) – University of Amsterdam.
Re-imagining the transformative potential of therapeutic jurisprudence and restorative justice using a relational paradigm
Journal The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 3 2019
Authors Susan L. Brooks
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Susan Brooks is an Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Drexel University Kline School of Law, Philadelphia, USA.
Restorative justice, anger, and the transformative energy of forgiveness
Keywords Restorative justice, ritual, anger, apology, forgiveness
Authors Meredith Rossner
Restorative justice has long been positioned as a justice mechanism that prioritises emotion and its expression. It is also unique in its ritual elements, such as the ritualized expression of anger and the symbolic exchange of apology and forgiveness. This paper draws on insights from research and practice in restorative justice and recent developments in criminology/legal theory and the philosophy of justice to suggest some ways that the broader criminal justice landscape can incorporate elements of successful restorative justice rituals into its practice. I argue that the unique elements of restorative justice- its ability to harness anger into a deliberative ritual for victims and offenders, its focus on symbolic reparations, and its ability to engender a form of forward-looking forgiveness that promotes civility- can provide a framework for rethinking how criminal justice institutions operate.
Meredith Rossner will from 2020 be a Professor of Criminology, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. In 2019 she was an Associate Professor of Criminology at the London School of Economics and a visitor at the Center for Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University.
The European Union and Space
A 'Star Wars' Saga?
Journal European Journal of Law Reform, Issue 4 2019
Keywords EU space competence, EU Space Policy, Galileo, Copernicus, Framework Agreement ESA-EU
Authors Rebecca-Emmanuela Papadopoulou
This article explores the complex relationship between the European Union (EU) and space, alias space's ever-growing place and role in the EU legal order. Two distinct paths are identified in this respect. On the one hand, as from the mid-1980s and despite the lack of an express 'space competence', space policy parameters were introduced in EU acts regulating telecommunications, satellite communications and electronic databases, but only to the extent necessary to serve the functioning of the single market. On the other hand, an autonomous EU Space Policy has been progressively elaborated as from the late 1990s through several initiatives, namely the strengthening of the collaboration with the European Space Agency and the setting up of the Galileo and Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)/Copernicus programmes. This tendency was corroborated by the conferral of an express space competence on the EU by the Lisbon Treaty, whose constitutional and institutional implications are explored in this article. It is submitted that the new space competence shall allow the EU to reach a stage of maturity and claim a greater degree of autonomy at the international level and, at the same time, to project its own governance model, thus enhancing the quality of international cooperation in space.
Rebecca-Emmanuela Papadopoulou
Rebecca-Emmanuela Papadopoulou is Assistant Professor, Law School, NKUA.
Law Reform in Ireland
Implementation and Independence of Law Reform Commission
Keywords law reform, statute law revision, better regulation, access to legislation, lawyer's law
Authors Edward Donelan
This article describes the origins and work of the Law Reform Commission in Ireland. The model follows that in Common Law countries. Its work includes both substantive law reform and statute law revision (weeding out spent or unused statutes and undertaking consolidation or other work to make statute law more accessible.) The work of the Commission focuses on 'lawyers' law' and, therefore, avoids subjects that could be politically controversial. Consequentially, the bulk of its recommendations are accepted and translated into legislation.
Edward Donelan
Edward Donelan, PhD, M.A., Barrister-at-Law (Kings Inns, Dublin, Middle Temple, London), Dip. Eur. Law, Dip. Arb. Better Regulation and Legislative Drafting Expert, currently working on projects with the Attorney General in Botswana to develop a programme of law reform for the newly established Law Reform Unit in the Chambers of the Attorney General.
The New Regulation Governing AIR, VIR and Consultation
A Further Step Forward Towards 'Better Regulation' in Italy
Keywords regulation, RIA, regulatory impact analysis, impact assessment, evaluation, consultation
Authors Victor Chimienti
This article describes the scope and contents of the newly adopted regulation governing regulatory impact analysis (RIA) and ex post evaluation of regulation (ExPER) in the Italian legal system. The article shows that this regulation has the potential to improve regulatory governance in Italy. Not only does it introduce innovations designed to increase transparency and participation, especially through strengthened consultation and communication mechanisms, but it also aims to improve the quality and effectiveness of regulatory analysis and evaluation activities. How the new regulation will be applied in practice, however, remains to be seen. In the meantime, the new set of rules are a welcome addition to Italy's Better Regulation policy.
Victor Chimienti
Victor Chimienti is an international and EU lawyer currently working as a free-lance consultant on donor funded projects. In 1997, he graduated in Law with full marks at the University of Bari "Aldo Moro" (Italy), and, in 2006, obtained his Ph.D in International and EU Law from the same university. Meanwhile, he had attended post-graduate legal studies at LUISS University in Rome, Italy, specialising in international and EC business law. Dr. Chimienti has also served as Lecturer in International and Trade Law at the University of Foggia, Italy, and as Research Scholar in International & Comparative Law at the University of Michigan, USA. Among others, he specialises in Better Regulation tools and procedures, such as Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA), Ex-Post Evaluation of Legislation, Monitoring, and Public Consultation.
Law Reform and the Executive
Keywords law reform, parliamentary counsel, legislative drafting, Australia, Victoria
Authors Adam Bushby
This article comments on the process of law reform in Australia from the perspective of a legislative drafter. After a description of the Australian political and parliamentary system and a discussion of the role of the legislative drafter, a brief summary of the formal law reform processes in Australia is provided, including a discussion of how legislative drafting offices participate in the law reform process. Participation includes the drafting of Bills giving effect to law reform proposals based on drafting instructions approved by Cabinet, providing for the undertaking of statutory reviews, as well as the remaking of legislation. It is the role of the legislative drafter to assist the government by turning policy into legislation, so the focus here is on the practical implementation of law reform rather than the independence of law reform bodies.
Adam Bushby
Senior Parliamentary Counsel, Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria, Australia. This article reflects the opinions of the author only, and should not be taken as representing the stance of the Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, Victoria, Australia. I would, of course, welcome any feedback from anyone with an interest in law reform.
Independence and Implementation
In Harmony and in Tension
Keywords Law Commission, law reform, legislation, independence, implementation
Authors Matthew Jolley
This article examines the factors that have influenced the independence of the Law Commission of England and Wales and the implementation of its recommendations. It discusses innovations in Parliamentary procedure for Law Commission Bills, the Protocol between Government and the Law Commission; and the requirement for the Lord Chancellor to report annually to Parliament on the implementation of the Law Commission's proposals. It makes the case that the relationship between independence and implementation is complex: at times the two pull in opposite directions, and at times they support each other.
Matthew Jolley
Matthew Jolley is Head of Legal Services and Head of the Property, Family and Trust Law Team at the Law Commission of England and Wales. This article is written in a personal capacity – with thanks to Christine Land, Rachel Preston and Sarah Smith for their assistance with background research.
Liberal Democracy and the Judeo-Christian Tradition
Journal Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy, Issue Pre-publications 2019
Keywords national identity, historical narratives, universal values, equal citizenship
Authors Tamar de Waal
Increasingly often, it is stated that the universal values underpinning Western liberal democracies are a product of a 'Judeo-Christian' tradition. This article explores the legitimacy of this claim from the perspective of liberal-democratic theory. It argues that state-endorsed claims about the historical roots of liberal-democratic values are problematic (1) if they are promoted as though they are above democratic scrutiny and (2) if they insinuate that citizens who belong to a particular (majority) culture remain the 'cultural owners' of the core values underpinning the state. More pragmatically, the paper suggests that the claim carries the risk of failing to facilitate all citizens becoming or remaining committed to nurturing fundamental rights and a shared society based on norms of democratic equality.
Tamar de Waal
Tamar de Waal is Assistant Professor of Legal Philosophy at the Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam.
Paid Digital Campaigning During the 2018 Local Elections in Flanders
Which Candidates Jumped on the Bandwagon?
Journal Politics of the Low Countries, Issue 3 2019
Keywords local elections, candidates, campaign spending, digital campaigning
Authors Gunther Vanden Eynde, Gert-Jan Put, Bart Maddens e.a.
This research note investigates the role of paid digital campaigning in the 2018 local elections in Flanders. We make use of the official declarations which candidates are legally required to submit. In these declarations, candidates indicate whether and how much they invested in online campaigning tools during the four months preceding the elections. We collected data on a sample of 3,588 individual candidates running in the 30 municipalities of the Leuven Arrondissement. A multilevel logistic regression model shows that the odds of spending on digital campaigning increases among incumbent aldermen and local councillors. The latter finding supports the normalization thesis of digital campaigning. The results also show that scale is important – the more potential voters a candidate has, the higher the odds that the candidate invests in digital tools.
Gunther Vanden Eynde
Gunther Vanden Eynde is a doctoral researcher at the KU Leuven Public Governance Institute. His research interests include political finance, campaign spending and the social media campaigns of Belgian political parties and their candidates.
Gert-Jan Put
Gert-Jan Put is a Senior Researcher at the Research Center for Regional Economics, KU Leuven. His research focuses on candidate selection and intra-party competition, and has been published in Political Behavior, Party Politics and Electoral Studies.
Bart Maddens
Bart Maddens is a professor of political science at the KU Leuven Public Governance Institute His research interests include political finance, elections and multi-level systems. His work has been published in West European Politics, Party Politics and Electoral Studies.
Gertjan Muyters
Gertjan Muyters is a doctoral researcher at the KU Leuven Public Governance Institute. His research focuses on candidate turnover and political careers.
Opening the Opaque Blank Box
An Exploration into Blank and Null Votes in the 2018 Walloon Local Elections
Keywords voting, elections, blank vote, invalid vote, abstention
Authors Jean-Benoit Pilet, Maria Jimena Sanhuza, David Talukder e.a.
In this article, we propose an in-depth exploration of blank and null ballots in the recent 2018 local elections in Wallonia (Belgium). In the official results, both blank and null ballots are merged together and are classified as invalid votes. After obtaining the authorization to access genuine electoral ballots, we study the votes which were not considered for the composition of local councils in detail. The dataset is a representative sample of 13,243 invalidated ballots from 49 Walloon municipalities. We first describe how many of these invalidated ballots are blank and how many are null votes, as well as the nature of the nulled votes (unintended errors or intentionally spoiled ballots). Second, we dig deeper into the differences between ballots that have been intentionally invalidated by voters (blank votes and intentional null votes) and ballots non-intentionally invalidated. Our results show that most of the ballots (two-thirds) are null ballots and that among them, half are unintentional null ballots. Finally, we show that contextual (socio-demographic and political) factors explain the variations in intentional and unintentional null votes across municipalities.
Jean-Benoit Pilet
Jean-Benoit Pilet is professor of political science at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He works on elections, political parties, and democratic reforms. He has recently co-authored Faces on the Ballot. The Personalization of Electoral Systems in Europe (OUP, 2016, with Alan Renwick) and The Politics of Party Leadership (OUP, 2016, with William Cross).
Maria Jimena Sanhuza
Maria Jimena Sanhueza is PhD Researcher in Political Science at Universite Libre de Bruxelles where she is associated to three projects studying Belgian politics. Her research focuses on citizenship, representation and democracy. Before starting her PhD, Maria Jimena worked as assistant researcher for EU HORIZON 2020 projects Pathways to Power and Solidarity in Times on Crisis, and co-authored a few publications on European democracies and representation.
David Talukder
David Talukder is PhD candidate at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He is conducting a thesis on the reform of representative democracy, looking at disadvantaged groups' evaluation of representative democracy and demands for procedural democratic reforms. His main research interests are related to procedural democratic reforms, participatory democracy and democratic innovations.
Jérémy Dodeigne
Jérémy Dodeigne is associate professor in political science at the Université de Namur. His research areas cover the study of political representation in multilevel systems, local politics, comparative politics and mixed methods research designs. His work appears in journals such as Party Politics, American Behavioral Scientist, Local Government Studies, Regional & Federal Studies, Government & Opposition, and Representation.
Audrey E. Brennan
Audrey E. Brennan is completing a joint doctorate in political science at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Université Laval. Her research interests are political parties, elections, and political participation. Her dissertation studies the effect of leadership change mechanisms on the long-term behaviour of political party members.
Split-Ticket Voting in Belgium
An Analysis of the Presence and Determinants of Differentiated Voting in the Municipal and Provincial Elections of 2018
Keywords split-ticket voting, local elections, voting motives, Belgium, PR-system
Authors Tony Valcke and Tom Verhelst
This article tackles the particular issue of split-ticket voting, which has been largely overlooked in Belgian election studies thus far. We contribute to the literature by answering two particular research questions: (1) to what extent and (2) why do voters cast a different vote in the elections for the provincial council as compared to their vote in the elections for the municipal council?
The article draws on survey data collected via an exit poll in the 'Belgian Local Elections Study', a research project conducted by an inter-university team of scholars.
Our analysis shows that nearly 45% of the total research population cast a split-ticket vote in the local elections of 2018. However, this number drops to one out of four if we only consider a homogenous party landscape at both levels by excluding the numerous votes for 'local' lists (which occur mostly at the municipal level). This finding underlines the importance of accounting for the electoral and institutional context of the different electoral arenas in research on split-ticket voting in PR systems. In the Belgian context, split-ticket voting in 2018 also differed between the different parties and regions. Furthermore, it was encouraged by a higher level of education and familiarity with particular candidates. This candidate-centred and strategic voting was matched by party identification and the urban municipal context favouring straight-ticket voting. Other factors such as region, a rural municipal context and preferential voting seemed more relevant to determine voting for local parties than using the instrument of split-ticket votes as such.
Tony Valcke
Tony Valcke is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of Ghent University (Belgium). He is a member of the Centre for Local Politics (CLP) and coordinator of the Teacher Training Department. His research, publications and educational activities focus on elections and democratic participation/innovation, (the history of) political institutions and (local) government reform, political elites and leadership, citizenship (education).
Tom Verhelst
Tom Verhelst is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium) and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Political Science at Maastricht University (the Netherlands). His research focuses on the Europeanisation of local government (with a particular interest for the regulatory mobilisation of local government in EU decision-making processes) and on the role and position of the local council in Belgium and the Netherlands (with a particular interest for local council scrutiny).
The Smuggling of Migrants across the Mediterranean Sea
A Human Rights Perspective
Journal East European Yearbook on Human Rights, Issue 1 2019
Keywords smuggling, refugees, migration, readmission, interceptions
Authors J. Shadi Elserafy LL.M.,
Irregular migration by sea is one of the most apparent contemporary political issues, and one that entails many legal challenges. Human smuggling by sea is only one aspect of irregular migration that represents a particular challenge for States, as sovereignty and security interests clash with the principles and obligations of human rights and refugee law. In dealing with the problem of migrant smuggling by sea, States have conflicting roles, including the protection of national borders, suppressing the smuggling of migrants, rescuing migrants and guarding human rights.
The legal framework governing the issue of migrant smuggling at sea stems not only from the rules of the law of the sea and the Smuggling Protocol but also from rules of general international law, in particular human rights law and refugee law. The contemporary practice of States intercepting vessels engaged in migrant smuggling indicates that States have, on several occasions, attempted to fragment the applicable legal framework by relying on laws that allow for enhancing border controls and implementing measures that undermine obligations of human rights and refugee law. This article seeks to discuss the human rights dimension of maritime interception missions and clarify as much as possible the obligations imposed by international law on States towards smuggled migrants and whether or not these obligations limit the capacity of States to act.
J. Shadi Elserafy LL.M.,
LL.M., Judge/Counselor at The Egyptian Council of State (The Higher Administrative Court of Justice).
Human Rights Practice Reviews
The Russian Federation
Authors Igor Bartsits, Oleg Zaytsev and Kira Sazonova PhD
Igor Bartsits
Igor Bartsits is the Director of IPACS RANEPA, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation.
Oleg Zaytsev
Oleg Zaytsev is the Dean of the School of Law, Doctor of Law, IPACS RANEPA.
Kira Sazonova PhD
Kira Sazonova is the Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in International Law, Ph.D. in Politics, IPACS RANEPA.
Human Rights Literature Reviews
Authors Ingrid Kauler LLM
Ingrid Kauler LLM
LLM (Advanced) on European and International Human Rights Law, Leiden University; Lawyer; Lecturer on EU Law, Tallinn University School of Governance, Law and Society; Study and Program Administrator for Master's programmes in Law, Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of Luxembourg.
On Lessons Learned and Yet to Be Learned
Reflections on the Lithuanian Cases in the Strasbourg Court's Grand Chamber
Keywords human rights, European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, Lithuania
Authors Egidijus Kūris
During the two-and-a-half decades while Lithuania has been a party to the European Convention on Human Rights, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has decided five Lithuanian cases. They all (perhaps but one) raised controversial issues not only of law but also of those pertaining to matters non-legal: psychology, politics, history and so on. There had been follow-ups to most of them, allowing for consideration as to the merits and disadvantages of the respective judgments. These cases are narrated on in their wider-than-legal context and reflected upon from the perspective of their bearing on these issues and of the lessons they taught both to Lithuania, as a respondent State, and to the Court itself.
Egidijus Kūris
Authors Anisia Mandro LLM
Anisia Mandro LLM
Anisia Mandro (European Union Law - LLM), Legal Researcher and Legal Adviser in the area of competition law, data protection, and human rights; Consultant in approximation of national legislation with EU acquis Communautaire.
2019/30 The religious ethos and differences of treatment in employment on grounds of belief (EU)
Journal European Employment Law Cases, Issue 3 2019
Keywords Religious discrimination
Authors Andrzej Marian Świątkowski
The author discusses the recent ECJ judgments in the cases Egenberger and IR on religious discrimination.
Andrzej Marian Świątkowski
Andrzej Marian Świątkowski, is a Jean Monet Professor of European Labour Law and Social Security, Jesuit University Ignatianum, Krakow, Poland and a member of the EELC Academic Board.
The Brussels International Business Court: Initial Overview and Analysis
Keywords international jurisdiction, English, court language, Belgium, business court
Authors Erik Peetermans and Philippe Lambrecht
In establishing the Brussels International Business Court (BIBC), Belgium is following an international trend to attract international business disputes to English-speaking state courts. The BIBC will be an autonomous business court with the competence to settle, in English, disputes between companies throughout Belgium. This article focuses on the BIBC's constitutionality, composition, competence, proceedings and funding, providing a brief analysis and critical assessment of each of these points. At the time of writing, the Belgian Federal Parliament has not yet definitively passed the Bill establishing the BIBC, meaning that amendments are still possible.
Erik Peetermans
Erik Peetermans is a legal adviser at the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB).
Philippe Lambrecht
Philippe Lambrecht is the Director-Secretary General at the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB).
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Home > News > Research > Class III obesity increases cost by US$8,000 per patient
Costs for veterans with Class III obesity compared to normal weight veterans rose substantially from US$635 in 2002 to US$3,307 in 2011
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Matthew Maciejewski
Class III obesity (BMI>40) is associated with significantly higher healthcare costs - US$8,138 over ten years - compared with normal weight (BMI<25), according to the first analysis of health expenditures attributable to obesity over 10 years. The authors from Duke University also found that the difference in healthcare costs for veterans with Class III obesity compared to normal weight veterans rose substantially from US$635 in 2002 to US$3,307 in 2011. The research was presented at the 30th Annual Meeting for the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) during ObesityWeek 2013, the largest international event focused on the basic science, clinical application and prevention and treatment of obesity. The event was hosted by the ASMBS and The Obesity Society (TOS).
"This is the first study to examine healthcare costs attributable to obesity over a period longer than four years," said study author Dr Matthew Maciejewski, of the Durham VA Medical Center and Duke University Department of Medicine. "Because we had such a large sample size, we were able to examine Veteran Affairs costs separately for veterans in clinically meaningful subclasses of obesity."
The retrospective study, 'Long-Term Healthcare Costs of Overweight and Obese Veterans', estimated the association between BMI and VA healthcare expenditure trends from 2002 through 2011, and included a random sample of 263,568 veterans who obtained VA care and for whom height and weight data were available.
Veterans were grouped according to BMI class: Class I (BMI 30.0-34.9), Class II (35.0-39.9), and Class III, using a mixed model analysis adjusted for age, gender, race, marital and co-pay status. Veterans with Class III obesity had the highest risk for obesity-related health problems such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, heart disease, and arthritis.
Patients in obese class III had the highest VA expenditures of all patients in every year, with excess 10-year costs equal to US$18,013 when compared to normal weight patients..
Leveraging longitudinal data from an integrated electronic health record that
captures longitudinal height and weight data on a large cohort of patients enables assessments not possible with cross-sectional data.
"Researchers often make the tie between obesity, poor health, and higher healthcare costs," said Dr Emily Dhurandhar, incoming TOS Advocacy Chair and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. "This study is unique because it illustrates the extent of this increase among a large cohort of veterans. The dramatic increase in healthcare costs over the 10-year period clearly demonstrates the need for effective obesity prevention and treatment measures."
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Adam Silver explains difference of Kawhi Leonard's 'load management' with Raptors to normal rest
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The Toronto Raptors, perhaps, popularized the use of the term load management in dealing with the health of Kawhi Leonard. Most teams began using it this past season as an excuse to rest their players, but NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says there's a difference between load management and resting.
In an interview with Rachel Nichols of ESPN, per Royce Young of ESPN, Silver explained that Leonard was using load management last season as part of a standard procedure that had something to do with the quad injury he suffered back in 2017.
"That term 'load management' is generally used in regard to rest. That's not what the protocol was for Kawhi. We had a player coming back from having missed almost an entire season, and that was a protocol designed by doctors, physical therapists, as a way to bring him back to full health. So it's very different, I think, for a player who is otherwise completely healthy who then chooses to sit out."
Leonard missed 22 games in the 2018-19 season, most of them due to load management. However, it did help him in the playoffs, as he was able to lead the Raptors to their first-ever championship.
It is unclear if the 'protocol' mentioned by Silver regarding Kawhi will be carried over next season. However, it will definitely be beneficial to some teams like the Golden State Warriors, who lost Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson due to serious injuries — assuming that they both decide to stay with the team.
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The New Albany Tree Board is hosting the Downtown New Albany Tree Walk on Friday, April 26th at 5 PM. City of New Albany arborist Greg Mills will lead the walk. It will start and end at the Scribner House, 110 East Main Street, New Albany, Indiana 47150.
Participants will learn about significant trees in the area, fun facts about the trees on the walking route, as well as growing conditions.
For more information about the walk, contact Krisjans Streips, Chief City Planner, at 812-948-5333.


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Hura is a Bedouin village in the Southern District of Israel.

Hura may also refer to:

 Hura (plant), a genus of trees
 Hura, Purulia, a village in  West Bengal, India
 Hura (community development block)
 Hura (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
 Maata "Te Reo" Hura (1904–1991), president of the Ratana Church of New Zealand
 Sohrab Hura (born 1981), Indian photographer

See also

Huraa (disambiguation)
Hurra (disambiguation)

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